"It's armor, not a costume. If it looks like it's seen use, that's 'cause it has." The base of what he's wearing he's worn pretty much since Kaiten, and any upgrades he's collected in bits and pieces since, cobbling together better pieces here and there off corpses and abandoned storage. "Means I've done stuff. Not just stood around in a courtyard somewhere."

He's been given a task, so he has to follow her. But he's not happy about it--or, more, he's not sure about it, but he's playing it off like unhappiness.

"I'm part of the Inquisition," sort of, "not your personal escort. You know I don't have coin for a shopping spree, right?"